To touch the future on its hither side: translation in the work of Sandra Mara Corazza

Abstract

In the geography of the thinking of Sandra Mara Corazza, the translation consists of a space in-between of appropriation and poetic recovery of tradition. Structured based on Walter Benjamin, Paul Valéry, Jacques Derrida, Haroldo de Campos, among others, the concept is a critical unfolding of writreading, neologism that suggests a transcreative way of reading and rewriting the original scientific, philosophical and artistic elements in curricular and didactic language. The connection between translation and writreading is established by allegorical montages of different times and uses of sign in text operation and in class. This peculiar know-how called artistic teaching of translation suggests a teaching image always in the midst of being formed, continually reimagined by the present of creation. As the subject of its craft, artistic teaching lives and takes on more life in transcreation, making its duty to translate an ethical and political commitment to create difference, distinguishing itself. In Sandra’s life/work, the encounter contains the rupture, a way to touch the future on its hither side.